The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-08

ing due on the Georgia bonds. This interest
amounts to S2l5, S37 so. Many of the State
bonds are held in Georgia, and the coupons
are presented to State banks for collection.
In fact, about one fourth of the interests is
paid in the State. and the full amount due
is not necessary in New York. The Treas
urer sends TO the metropolis, therefore, only
$4,000. which is more than sufficient for
the purpose. In Savannah coupons are
paid TO the amount of 500, 600, and Augusta
and Atlanta collect twice each year the
same amount. The same sum is generally
paid out twice year at the Treasury to
bondholders. About June Is Treasurer
Hardeman will add to his deposit now in
New York a sum sufficient TO make il SlT5,-
0OO to meet the July interest.
Watkinsville Enterprise: Many years ago
there lived in this county man by the name
of Nj. NJ. Sheats, a farmer One day Mr..
|. Sheats went down in the woods on his place
to feed his hogs, and bis attention was called
TO large forest pine tree, which he noticed
was occupied by a colony of bees. He said
nothing of his discovery. but kept it 10 him
self. Soon after this he moved from this
county to Coweta county, where he lived ten
years, then moved back. After his return
he remembered the bee tree, and prompted
by curiosity he went to examine and see if
the bees were still there. Sure enough they
were, so he called in some of his neighbors
for help and cut the tree down, when it was
found to contain hollow 50 feet long and 8
inches in diameter, chock full of honey from
one end to the other.
At the last meeting of the Board of Di-
rectors of the Muscogee Manufacturing
Company at Columbus it was decided to
build a very important addition to its
already extensive mills. The new mill viii
ornament the Mott corner-Front and Four
tenth streets. 1t viii be handsome four
story building in the shape of an L, fronting
on the west side of Front street and on the
south on Fourteenth street. Its capacity
will be 400 looms, or 200 TO 800. and neces-
sary preparation in machinery for supplying
the same II is understood that this new
mill win be built without assessing the
stockholders, and viii greatly enhance the
present value Of the stock in the manufac-
tory, as it will equal the present mills of
the company in output of goods or double
the value OF the present product.
A lively fight occurred in Hoschton Sat
urday evening between the citizens of that
quiet little town and some negroes from
Pendergrass. The Pendergrass negroes had
a spite at some HoSchtOn colored people,
came over to seek revenge and raised row
with their enemies in the town. The white
people told the whole gang to go out of
| town for their fight. The Pendergrass ne
| groes refused to go, and said they would
Il
| gan to make good the threat. The whites
then armed themselves and the negroes
commenced the fun. The negroes fired
| upon them and wounded a white
man named Low House slightly
in the leg below the knee. The fire was
returned, and one negro shot down with the
contents of double-barrel shotgun and a
| Winchester rife. He was laying on the
| ground unable TO be moved when the train
passed Saturday night, and the attending
| physician said he was bound to die. The
other negroes after the first fire fed to the
| woods
Sumter Republican: A gentleman living
near Americas said: II had fine mulberry
| tree in front of my house. and was thinking
seriously of transplanting it to the rear
| thereof so as to give shelter to the back
| part against the afternoon sun, which beat
| against the house without opposition.
| Tuesday night / went to sleep while the
thunder was rolling and the lightning was
flashing around, thinking about the tree, and
worried about transplanting it during
the present drought. | arose Friday morn
ing, and looked out of my front window and
| was greatly surprised to find my mulberry
gone. What had become of it was ques-
| ton that worried me. | went to the back
| door, opened it, and found my tree Just
| where | wanted it. | asked my wife who
had transplated the tree, but she thought
had gone daft and made no answer. When
she saw the tree at the back of the house
| she then said THAT is what you were
doing in the night. | could get no sense
| from YOU, and was too tired and sleepy to
watch you.n The man had got up in his
| sleep and transplanted tree that it would
| take four or five men to handle.